_It would be altogether too ungrateful not to write to your Reverence to thank you, both for the letters which were recently written in our behalf to the Fathers who are here in [870] new France, and for the kindness which we have received from these Fathers, who have placed us under everlasting obligations to them. I pray our good Lord that he may be an ample recompense for both. As to me I write to our Superiors that I am so grateful for this that I shall lose no opportunity to show my appreciation of it; and I implore them, although they are already very much attached to your Fathers, to express the same gratitude to all your holy Order. Father Joseph will tell your Reverence the purpose of his voyage,[27] for the success of which we shall not cease to offer prayers and sacrifices to God. The affairs of our Master must be advanced in earnest this time, and nothing must be omitted which may be deemed necessary. I have written to all of those who, I thought, could contribute to this enterprise, and who, I believe, will occupy themselves with it, the affairs of France permitting. I do not doubt that your Reverence will take an interest in the work, and thus_ virtus unita _will achieve good results. In awaiting our success I commend myself to the holy Sacrifices of your Reverence, of whom I am,_ Kebec, this 28th of July, 1625. The very humble servant, Charles Lalemant. To my Reverend Father, the Father Provincial of the Reverend Recollect Fathers. Epistola Patris Caroli Lalemant Superioris Missionis Canadensis ad Reverendissimum Patrem Mutium Vitelleschi, Præpositum Generalem Societatis Jesu, Romæ. (_Transcripsit Pater Felix Martinus ex codice Latino qui in Archivis Jesu, Romæ, conservatur_). ADMODUM REVERENDE IN CHRISTO PATER. Pax Christi.